A NASA cubesat designed to search for the universe's most powerful and violent explosions has successfully detected its first massive burst, space agency officials announced earlier this week. BurstCube, a shoebox-sized satellite placed into orbit in April to detect and study gamma-ray bursts, or...
known as "gamma-ray bursts," is only temporarily out of order. NASA placedSwiftinto safe mode on March 15 as a result of the "degrading performance" of one of the three gyroscopes the space telescope uses to direct itself towardastrophysical sources...
The article reports on the discovery of the most intrinsically powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) by Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on September 16, ...
NASA has confirmed that on October 9, 2022, our solar system was struck by a gamma-ray burst originating 1.9 billion light-years away that was brighter than any since the beginning of human civilization, in what the space agency calls a "1 in 10,000 year" event that blinded space satelli...
NASA/Swift/A. Beardmore (University of Leicester) The most powerful gamma-ray burst ever observed that released 18 teraelectronvolts of energy has been captured by orbiting telescopes. The Swift X-ray Telescope captured the afterglow of the gamma-ray burst, believed to have been caused by...
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The burst also provided a long-awaited inaugural observing opportunity for a link between two experiments on the International Space Station – NASA’s NICER X-ray telescope and a Japanese detector called the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI). Activated in April, the connectio...
On 11 December 2021 at 13:59:09 Universal Time (ut; hereafterT0), NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift observatory (hereafter Swift) discovered GRB 211211A9as an extremely bright burst with a duration of over 50 s (Extended Data Fig.1). The burst was independently observed by the Fermi, INTEGR...
Utilizing data fromNASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, researchers discovered a unique energy peak in the aftermath of the brightest Gamma-Ray burst ever seen, suggesting the annihilation of electrons and positrons. This finding provides new insights into the behavior of cosmic je...
"This burst was a whopper," said Swift principal investigator Neil Gehrels of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "It blows away every gamma ray burst we've seen so far." Swift's Burst Alert Telescope picked up the burst at 2:12 a.m. EDT, March 19, and pinpoin...